Join me for every Monday morning to introduce the benefits and practice of Mindfulness to enable you to optimise your well-being. During the course of the weeks we will explore the following

Learn a few mindfulness practices to incorporate into your every day

Explore the benefits of mindfulness

Learn about Human Givens and optimise your emotional wellbeing

Learn how to use mindfulness to lower emotional arousal enabling better coping skills

Build resilience

This is not a course so you can drop in any Monday or every Monday whatever suits your best.

Being more mindful can help relieve stress and anxiety in your everyday life. Meditation can help you become more focused and perform at your best. Mindful meditation is a powerful way to start your week and experience as a result the benefit to your emotional and physical well-being.

An experiential course with strong theoretical foundation to introduce Mindful Meditation and learn four different avenues to reach a mindful state; all set within a framework of Human Givens psychology and what we need to be emotionally healthy.

JUST WHAT parents NEED: One-day course designed to help you get the most out of being a parent NEW

The Just What Parents Need Human Givens day gives parents genuine insight into their own innate emotional needs and how these are connected to wellbeing, confidence and self esteem. Using fun activities and exercises, the course will facilitate greater awareness of these emotional needs allowing us to better manage ourselves and lower stress, help us parent better, and facilitate our children’s wellbeing and growth.

Saturday 25 January, 2014, 10am-4.30pm

JUST WHAT women NEED: Harness the Female Brain & Flourish. NEW

Just What Women Need is a Human Givens one-day course dedicated to facilitate Female Flourishing. It offers a bedrock of the latest neuropsychological knowledge about how the female brain actually works in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of being female in the world. This knowledge enables us to marshall resources efficiently and appropriately to best meet key emotional needs and nurture wellbeing.

A strong understanding of the scientific distinctiveness of the female brain in order to:

Understand your emotional needs & how to get them met

Understand & enhance your key relationships

Management of biochemical and hormonal fluctuations and life transitions with greater insight & ease

Better use of your distinct innate resources to live a more fulfilled life.

Saturday 15 February, 2014, 10am-4.30pm

More detail about all courses under ‘Courses to Enhance Emotional Health’ at http://dublinhumangivens.ie/?page_id=440

All courses take place at The Dublin Human Givens Centre, Dun Laoghaire

MIND your SELF is a day-long introduction to Mindful Meditation practice and Human Givens psychology. Both approaches have proven benefits for emotional health and physical health. Join us for a unique, rich day designed to introduce the benefits and practice of both to enable you to harness the power of your brain and optimse your health.

Learn why Mindfulness has a positive impact on mental and physical health

Practice different approaches to reach mindful state

Learn about Human Givens and how it charts a map to understand what we need to be emotionally healthy.

Learn how to harness the power of your brain to achieve mindfulness, lower emotional arousal & function more healthily.

Build mental resilience, encourage healing, prevent ill-health

This Mindfulness and Human Givens course differs from other approaches to teaching Mindful meditation in that it introduces a variety of avenues into practice – from Eastern traditional approaches, Qi Gong, for example, to Western approaches, as exemplified in Jon Kabat Zinn’s MBSR, across a number of practices of different duration and type. This is all set within a Human Givens Psychological framework.

So, why practice Mindful Meditation?

To be healthier – in mind and body

To create spaciousness of mind to enable choice in response to the environment

To increase clear thinking

To reduce emotional reactivity in response to stress or perceived threat

The HG Approach is based on the most effective techniques devised across all schools of psychotherapy over time, and underpinned by the great neuroscientific findings of recent times. It’s based on how the brain actually works, rather than an ideological premise as to how it might.

HG has introduced breakthrough theories about the function of dreams and the cycle of depression and refined the safest and most effective ways of treating depression, trauma, anxiety and addictions

The essential HG Approach and understanding of health is applicable across a very broad spectrum of experience: wherever there are people seeking to work and live well together.

Human Givens therapy is quick (working in half the time of alternate approaches), effective and safe.

Devised in the late 1990s by Joe Griffin, an Irish Psychologist, and Ivan Tyrrell, an English Psychotherapist, it offers a profound understanding of emotional health, and how we achieve and keep it, based on a seamless reciprocal marriage between theory and practice.

Course Description

The course will anchor the experience of mindfulness in the neuroscientific evidence that demonstrates its effectiveness, explaining how and why it works. Key elements of Human Givens will be explained so that a growing capacity to be mindful can be informed and supported by a growing understanding of what we need to be healthy in the world, and how we can achieve that. Thus theory, information and practice will be at the core of the course offering a holistic approach to Mindfulness and optimum emotional health and the immediate insight, understanding and opportunity to begin to achieve it.

The Day

The day will run from 10am to 4.30pm approximately. A 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute tea/coffee breaks will be included. Tea/Coffee and lunch will be provided.

It will consist of:

An introduction to the ancient wisdom and origins of mindfulness, as well as the science of mindfulness

Nick Power, Dip Psych, HG Dip P, MHGI, is a fully qualified Human Givens Practitioner with a Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy from Nottingham Trent University. He is also a registered member of the Human Givens Institute and holds a Certificate in Addiction Studies from NUI Maynooth

He has a deep knowledge and commitment to Mindful Meditation having first been introduced to it through his study of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) twenty years ago in Ireland and in Nanjing, China. He has previously taught Tae Chi and Ci Gong and is a huge exponent of the power of meditation to facilitate optimum mental and physical health.

Cathriona Edwards

Cathriona Edwards, HG DIP, BA (hons) Psych, MHGI is a fully qualified Human Givens Psychotherapist, with a higher diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy, from the Human Givens College, is a registered member of the Human Givens Institute, and has an Honours Degree in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. She is practicing Human Givens Psychotherapy at the Dublin Humana Givens Centre.

Her introduction to Mindfulness was via the MBSR (Mind Body Stress Reduction) approach as devised by Jon Kabat Zinn – which she was taught at The Oscailt Centre in Dublin. Cathriona is a strong advocate of its great potential benefits for stress reduction and optimizing emotional and physical health.

Cost per person: €90

Prior Booking is Essential. Availability is restricted to ensure intimacy of group to maximize learning and experience.